Tentative Schedule
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
10:00am Registration Opens
1:00pm to 4:00pm Dealers Open
4:00pm to 5:00pm Session #1 “Welcome To Cleveland” with Lance Rich, Dr. Bruce
Averbook & Tim LaGanke
5:00pm to 7:00pm Dinner
7:00pm to 8:30pm Session #2 with Jim Hagy “The Instant Illusionist and The Cleveland Bunch: Dreams of a Vaudeville Life”, Sandy Daily “The Adventures & Challenges of a Magic Collectors Wife, Gene Anderson “Not Just a One Trick Pony” with Stan Allen
8:30pm to 11:30pm Dealer Room Open
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
10:00am First Buses Load for Tours of Dr. Bruce Averbook & Tim LaGangke
Collections
2:00pm to 5:00pm Dealer Room Open
7:00pm to 8:30pm Session #3 with Richard Cohn “Roltaire”, Phil Schwartz “Steals, Lifts
& Body Loads-The Funny Business of Magic Collecting, Al Belmont “Memories of the Blackstone Sr. Show”
8:30pm to 11:30pm Dealer Room Open
Thursday, May 11, 2023
9:30am to 11:00am Dealer Room Opens
11:00am to 12:30pm Session #4 with William Winters “Walter Gibson”, John Cox “Houdini in Cleveland”,David Charvet “Conjurors and their Cars”
12:30pm to 2:30pm Dealers Open
2:30pm to 4:00pm Session #5 Jay Hunter “Don’t Throw Away Throw Out Cards”, Gabe Fajuri “A Half Century of Magic on The Block”. Mike Caveney “Otis Lithography Company, Cleveland, Ohio”
6:30pm- 10pm Dinner & Show Cleveland’s Finest Magicians with MC Kerry Pollock, Alan Howard, Tim Hill & Rick Smith Jr